Opicina

Opicina, Italy is where nonno Virgilia was a refugee for about four years before moving to Canada.

Parent Map

Live History Night Map for Carly Starn's 5th period History class, Cabrillo Middle School

Coordinates

Latitude: 45.688327000000
Longitude: 13.790857500000

Timeline of Events Associated with Opicina

Date Event Manage
The end of the month May 1956 to 24 May 1960

Nonno Virgilio transferred to refugee camp in Opicina

As Mario Lorenzutti wrote to my father, "In maggio/giugno del 1956 fummo trasferiti nel campo profughi di Opicina ( baracche)  e li ,tuo papa` rimase fino al 24 maggio 1960 ,giorno in cui parti` per il Canada ,come emigrante./rifugiato."  Translated:  In May/June of 1956 we were transferred to the refugee camps in Opicina, and there, your father remained until the twenty-fourth of May 1960, the day that he parted for Canada as a refugee immigrant.

 present-day Opicina above Trieste, Italy